[ale] FC3 yum installation glitch

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sat Nov 26 22:36:33 EST 2005


Uugh. I HATE it when the tool you like you use to upgrade/install things
breaks.

You will need to manually download yum.rpm and install it with rpm.
Plus, track down any dependencies manually.

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 14:45 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> All,
> 
> I just re-imaged a box with FC3 and updated python, and now yum don't
> work - I get the following error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ?
>     import yummain
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ?
>     import yum
> ImportError: No module named yum
> 
> 
> My limited Python experience suggests a PYTHONPATH or similar issue
> with the location path environment, but I'm lost as to where to fix. 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Pete
> 
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